Bugatti EB110 GT

The Bugatti EB110 is a mid-engine sports car from Bugatti Automobili SpA. It was apparent on September 15, 1991, in both Versailles and in advanced of the Grande Arche at La D�fense in Paris, France, absolutely 110 years afterwards Ettore Bugatti's birth.

The car has a 60-valve, quad-turbo V12 powering all four auto through a six-speed gearbox. The 3.5 L (3499 cc) agent has a bore of 81 mm (3.2 in) and a achievement of 56.6 mm (2.23 in) and is able of 553 hp (412 kW; 561 PS) at 8000 rpm. Acceleration to 100 km/h (62 mph) takes 3 seconds, and the GT has a top acceleration of 215 mph (346 km/h).[1]

The car uses a bifold wishbone suspension, with the anatomy congenital by A�rospatiale, an aircraft company, and fabricated from carbon fibre. Equipped with Gandini's acclaimed appropriation scissor doors, it has a bottle agent awning that provides a appearance of the V12 agent forth with a speed-sensitive cyberbanking rear accession that can be aloft at the flick of a switch. The shift-knob is placed afterpiece to the disciplinarian so that beneath time is taken to shift. Five pre-production prototypes with aluminum anatomy were built, followed by eight with blended chassis. Following these, it is believed that alone 95 GT and 31 SS accumulation models were constructed.

In 1992, a lighter and added able archetypal with 603 hp (450 kW; 611 PS) at 8250 rpm, the EB110 SS (SuperSport) was introduced. This car is able of 216 mph (348 km/h) and 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.2 seconds.

Early in 1994 Formula One disciplinarian Michael Schumacher purchased a banana-yellow EB 110 Super Sport, giving the aggregation a abundant accord of publicity.[2] Derek Hill, son of American Formula One Champion Phil Hill, was one of the three drivers on a aggregation that competed with an EB 110 in the United States at the 1996 24 Hours of Daytona.

Hard times hit the aggregation in 1995 and, as aftereffect of administrator Artioli's over aggressive acquirement of Lotus in accession to the company's adventure to advance the EB112 four aperture car, the aggregation was bankrupt. Dauer Antagonism GmbH of Nuremberg, Germany, bought the semi-finished EB 110 cars in the accumulation bulb additional the genitalia account through the defalcation trustee. The actual anatomy and a adaptation of the agent were after developed by B Engineering into their Edonis sports car.

Despite after antagonism for Ferrari from 1996 advanced and a aerial contour blow with a barter the antecedent year (for which he abhorrent the braking system) Schumacher connected to absorb the EB110SS. Schumacher awash the car in 2003 to Modena Motorsport, a Ferrari barn specialising in service, chase alertness and sales of archetypal Ferraris in Germany.